fandomtownies | Community Center Class: 21st Century Social Media, Thursday Evening [11/01].

Summer had almost canceled class...again. She felt a little bad about it, though, and then, suddenly, brilliance struck her, and she realized she could do what every lazy ass teacher she'd ever had in high school had done probably countless times because they felt like she did: just out of it and completely disconnected with the idea of teaching.

MOVIE DAY!

She kind of felt a little dumb that she hadn't thought of it earlier, though.

"Hey, guuuuuys." Renewed and re-energized, she beamed as everyone got settled. "Soooo, sorry that the last few weeks have been a little screwy, what with school trips and random illnesses, dead loved ones and me being a squirrel. But we're going to get back into the swing of things, but I thought maybe we should ease into it a little, which is why we're having a movie day. And this is a movie that just came out this year, and it's very topical, and shows just how pervasive social media can be in current society, and how one man navigates through that tangled web in an attempt to find his daughter.

"Another fun and relevant fact about this movie," she added brightly, as she went to pull the movie up on her phone and hook it up to the projector screen at the front of the room, then bounced over to the door to kill the lights, "is that it technically isn't released for home viewing yet, not until later this month! But that's another great thing about the internet that might be maybe a little bit possibly slightly illegal...you can download anything!"

But you wouldn't download a car.

"We call that piracy," she added with the sweetest, most innocent smile. "Enjoy the movie, guys, and maybe we'll share our thoughts at the end, too."

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Either pirating media and/or regretting hacking into your daughter's super sketch social media.

Amaya Blackstone

Fjord

Peter Octavian

Yeah, Summer is so, so glad her own dad can barely even figure out how to use use Facebook with this one.

Well then. Fjord hadn't been anticipating another movie night so soon, but he was hardly complaining, either.

... He had no idea what was going on in the movie, exactly. But he still wasn't complaining.

Well, this was definitely different from the sorts of films in rotation for Peter's class, but Amaya was certainly...interested. Confused, more often than not, sure, but interested all the same.

Well, this was...a thing. Definitely a thing.

Any thoughts to share about the movie? The pervasiveness of social media? The way we play different parts in real life than we do in the virtual world? The morality of tapping into someone's personal social media to extract information, even if the intention is a good one?

Or do you just want to know more about modern virtual piracy? Summer will totally teach you about pirating videos, because Summer is a terrible influence.

Should you need her for any non-piracy, non-familial-stalkery discussion needs.

I'm kind of mad that it took me this long to think of this class.

My brain has not been kind to me today.

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